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EDITORS’ NOTES

After a 12-year break between studio albums, Blur remain as intrepid and inventive as they’ve ever been. The Magic Whip finds the Britpop icons reuniting with a collection that's both wonderfully familiar and endlessly surprising. “Lonesome Street” kicks off with the ecstatic crunch of guitar and then takes on new colours and textures, with psychedelic synth flourishes and kooky harmonies. While the gleefully distorted “I Broadcast” buzzes and roars, the melancholy sway of “New World Towers” and the serpentine soul of “My Terracotta Heart” leave a haunting afterglow.

EDITORS’ NOTES

After a 12-year break between studio albums, Blur remain as intrepid and inventive as they’ve ever been. The Magic Whip finds the Britpop icons reuniting with a collection that's both wonderfully familiar and endlessly surprising. “Lonesome Street” kicks off with the ecstatic crunch of guitar and then takes on new colours and textures, with psychedelic synth flourishes and kooky harmonies. While the gleefully distorted “I Broadcast” buzzes and roars, the melancholy sway of “New World Towers” and the serpentine soul of “My Terracotta Heart” leave a haunting afterglow.

TITLE

TIME

Lonesome Street

4:22

New World Towers

4:03

Go Out

4:40

Ice Cream Man

3:25

Thought I Was a Spaceman

6:16

I Broadcast

2:51

My Terracotta Heart

4:05

There Are Too Many of Us

4:25

Ghost Ship

4:59

Pyongyang

5:47

Ong Ong

3:08

Mirrorball

3:37

12 Songs, 51 Minutes

Released: 24 Apr 2015

℗ 2015 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Blur (2015), under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company